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BOOK-HOLDER AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patentvil'o. 546,479, datedSeptember 1'?, 1895.

ApplicatOll filed November 23, 1894:. Serial No. 529,734. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. WHIPPLE, of Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Combined Book-Holding and Advertising Devices, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of thisspecication.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combinedbook-holding and advertising devices. Such a device is shown in myapplication tiled November 22, 1894, Serial No. 529,667, and is intendedmore especially for directories and other books exposed in hotels andother public places where it is desired to prevent the book from. beingremoved or stolen and to display advertising-matter, but which alsoserves for oices and other private use; and my invention consists incertain features of novelty hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure I represents a side elevation of a stand with my improvedbook-holding and advertising frame supported thereon. Fig. II is a topview. Fig. III is avertical section taken on line III III, Fig. II. Fig.IV is a detailed end View showing book and manner of attaching clamp andspring. Fig. V is a detail side elevation showing book and clamp andspring attachment.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a stand having a box-top 2, witha central chamber 3. The bottom section 4 of the box-top is secured at 5to the supporting-post 6. The upper section 7 of the top 2 has a centralaperture 8.

Resting on the top of the stand is a skeleton frame 9, provided with aseries of spaces 10, in which may be placed advertising-cards or cardscontaining other matter of information.

1l represents a directory or other book firmly locked to the stand bymeans of clamps 12, hinged at 13 to the advertising-frame 9, said clampshaving lips 14 extending over the different edges of the book-cover toirml y lock and support the book.

15 represents a 'coil-spring having its coil located in the chamber 3beneath the book and having its ends formed into semicircular arms 16,which bear against the back of the clamps and hold the book closed aftervthe same has been shut up. The arms of the spring extend through slots17 in the top of the stand, which permit of their receding when the bookis opened. By secretingthe coil-spring in the chamber 3 the same isprotected from unauthorized interference, and at the same time it isimpossible for any one to remove the book Without removing or uncouplingthe hinges or removing the advertising-frame, which is screwed to thetop of the stand.

I claim as my invention- A combined book-holding and advertising devicecomprising a support, a top formed with an upper section having abook-aperture, a skeleton advertising frame secured to the upper sectionforming a support for a book, and having slots located transversely tothe book-aperture,` and a series of card spaces surrounding thebook-apertures, the clamps hinged to the frame at the edges of thebook-apertu re, and having lips for en gaging the edges of the bookcovers, and the coilspring located beneath the frame and havingsemi-circular arms extending through the transverse slots of the frameand bearing against the clamps 5 substantially as described.

CHARLES L. .WHIPPLE

